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SUBMITTER: Wahsner J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6494104 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190327 14
Oxidized collagen, wherein lysine residues are converted to the aldehyde allysine, is a universal feature of fibrogenesis, i.e. actively progressive fibrosis. Here we report the small molecule, allysine-binding positron emission tomography probe, <sup>68</sup>Ga-NODAGA-indole, that can noninvasively detect and quantify pulmonary fibrogenesis. We demonstrate that the uptake of <sup>68</sup>Ga-NODAGA-indole in actively fibrotic lungs is 7-fold higher than in control groups and that uptake is linea ...[more]